lokoike
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What's wrong with MS Office?
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my goodness, Andavari, you crack me up! Thanks for the laugh!
at your expense, hehe
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Bizarrely, the "click" sound when I click on something on Internet Explorer or when a page refreshes has stopped happening.
Every other sound my computer makes seems to be working fine, though. Any ideas?
I have a feeling one of two things might have happened:
1. The "click" sound ("C:\ WINDOWS\ Media\ start.wav", I believe) has been moved to a different directory or deleted
or
2. You accidently removed this sound from the default Windows sound scheme. To find out if this is the case, click Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices, and click the Sounds tab. Scroll down the list and find the word 'Select'. If there is not a picture of a speaker on the left side of it, then you will have to re-add the aforementioned sound file and save the changes.
Let me know if this works for you.
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The 7900 is 90nm (7800s are 110nm) as well as having higher clocks. Looking at the benchmarks, the 7900GTX is a pretty significant improvement over the 7800GTX 512 for a non-next-gen part.
Oh, I see. I thought the 7800 was 90nm too! Thanks for the info, Rishi.
Still, if I was gonna get SLI, I wouldn't ditch my already excellent 7800 for a 7900. Whenever I upgrade, I usually wait until several generations of a product has passed before I get one. I don't see much sense in upgrading graphics and other hardware every month. Too expensive and not enough performance boost to make it worthwhile.
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Speaking of the scan I did, do you want a copy? It's a Lavalys Everest application (freeware) which seems pretty darned in-depth. If you run everything and don't condense the report, the help files say there could easily be 2MB of data. Everything looked good on mine (I think) except for video and monitor - and that reminds me...I was able to run the chkdsk /r last night, and then did defrag. Since then I've been getting plug and play errors on system log, which is one of the first errors I got a couple weeks ago.
I <3 EVEREST... or at least I did before they stopped making freeware versions of it!
You could email me the report, but I doubt it would do too much good. That is just way too much info for my little brain!
Last question...what on earth could be causing my hardware to go bad??!! Ideas? And why doesn't anything show up as problematic in my device manager? or the diagnostics I ran?
Hardware wears down like anything else. Especially components that have moving parts such as hard drives and fans. The parts eventually die due to things like electrical resistance, friction, vibration, etc. Also, if the parts had a small defect in them when you got them, the parts could potentially die within a very short period of time.
btw, interestingly, I haven't had any errors since 5am or so when I did the chkdsk and defrag, with the exception of a couple of plug and play errors. hmmm...ok, just kind of brainstorming here - I know next to nothing about the workings of computers. Would it be possible/likely that something with my monitor is causing the problems? That would sure explain why the techs at the shop rarely had any of the probs I did, and also why I'm having almost the same probs with this new computer as the old. Just a thought. The monitor is a Proview.
Well, in a word, no. If your monitor was bad, your picture might be blurry, aliased, discolored, etc., but that wouldn't cause you to get disk errors and such. The monitor is basically just a TV. It doesn't really send your computer commands, it simply receives images and displays them.
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too lazy to look for himself No I am not (If you tell me where I will try my best to help dry
O dear! Sorry about interjecting here, but I'm afraid you (hlpme) misunderstood my comment! I wasn't saying that YOU are too lazy to look! I was saying that I was too lazy to look! That is why I wrote "lokoike = too lazy to look for himself"!
Hope this clears that up!
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Just joking.
Suuuuuure you were! Go ahead, just try dissin' my wheels again, why don't you?!
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One build, no confused people, no complaints because of toolbar being installed with ccleaner (people that are not aware of the other builds, which are a lot), fastly downloadable, installabe, easily usable, fast proggy
I agree wholeheartedly! Sounds like a win-win to me!
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Personally I'd much rather have a retinal scanner or finger print scanner built for my system for logging into accounts (bank, email, forums, shopping, etc.,) as that would completely eliminate any theft of a password and eliminate forgetting passwords altogether.
Agreed! Hardware passwords are the best, and are practically uncrackable without expensive surgeries or lenses, etc.
In my town, we actually have a grocery store that is accepting finger scanning as a way to pay for your purchases (I'm being totally serious)! They treat your fingerprint like a debit/credit card! Very strange, but I suppose it will become commonplace before too long.
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Hmm... maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see all that much difference between the 7800 and the 7900. Slightly faster core and slightly faster RAM, no more pipelines, no more feature support (although once again, I may have missed something).
If you really want SLI now, I would just get another 7800. I personally almost never resell comp parts, because they always depreciate, so it really isn't worth it. Just my opinion.
But like rridgely said, Vista and newer games may end up requiring support for some new shader spec or something that both cards don't support, so I personally would wait and see what happens.
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wait.... so did you help the guy out. Did he find out what the problem was? Do any of you guys actually help people anymore???
Well, most of us gave suggestions, but we really don't know if we helped him or not when he doesn't come back on to check and see if his question was answered! Nothing annoys me more than that.
We'll probably never know if we helped him or not, cause he won't come on and tell us! The point of troubleshooting is to share/test out ideas until something works. Well, if we never know whether the initial ideas worked or not, how on Earth can we offer more? Personally, my mind reading is a little rusty, so I don't really know what his outcome was...
And if a topic goes for a while with no responses from the original poster, what else are we to do but corrupt it?
Just kidding, but seriously, good to see you again kk56!
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I honestly don't think the amount of people using the forum matter, I've been on here and have seen just 3 people before including myself and it just stops working or gets so slow that I just give up.
WHOA! 2k+ posts! D00d, u liek totly pwn!
Anyways, sorry for the randomnity, but when you saw only 3 people on, was that just members, or does that include viewers too? When I said 56 people, I was talking about the total number of people, cause there was actually only like 7 true members, and the other 49 were just viewers.
Also, you're using dial-up. LOL.
lokoike braces himself for the severe verbal thrashings which he knows the 'Super Zero' will soon unleash upon him
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I wanted to format it but the utility to actually format it does not detect it.
Man, that really sucks!
I guess the best thing to find out then is if using Windows' format utility is okay to use, since Windows still sees the drive.
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You can learn allot about cars if you open the hood on your Yugo and look at the engine, hint it's that little thing under the hood that you have to use a microscope to see. ~ That'll teach you a lesson after dumping Cheez Whiz on my noggin'.
Ouch. That was harsh.
Course, I suppose I sorta asked for it, now didn't I?
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Where in my post does it say that krit86lr posts too much?
This is not intended as a malicious post.
You are telling her not to reply, and your entire post is about "hijacked" and "trivial" posts/conversations, so one would logically deduce...
And if the intent is not malicious, what is it? How do you nicely call someone "St. Joan of the Internet"?
Here is what I think: I think you a posting this solely to mock others (such as K) who are perhaps more informed than you, and that you simply came on here to piss and moan. And my feelings are stated with all due respect, and by no means malicious.
Please note the sarcasm.
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I'll start by saying I'm a complete prat, there it's out the way and I know it.
Here's my problem. I've just reformatted my boot drive, the PC now boots up nice and quick again....gawd it's good to get rid of some of the junk I had installed.
Everything works fine apart from my monitor. When I scroll I get this strange ripple effect as I scroll. Now this is the part where I've been a prat, I forget to take a note of the VGA drivers. I've tried an auto update to little success.
Has anyone ever had this problem and how did you solve it?
You would think after all the times I'd done this I would have remembered something basic like the drivers.....DUH!!
Anyway thanks for any advice
mps
You are correct. It is your video drivers. First, try restarting Windows. Oftentimes after a clean install of WinXP, the video drivers still aren't finalized. If you still have the effect after restarting, go to the manufacturer's website and get drivers that way. Does your video card have an ATI or Nvidia chip? You can get drivers packages/control panels here:
Also, make sure you have your color set to 32-bit, and that you have a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or higher (preferrably higher).
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Don't know lokoike. I am having the same problem as Hazelnut. It's been happening a lot all of the sudden. Maybe this thread jinxed it~
Never mind, I spoke too soon!
Now it is going veeeerrrrryyyyy ssssslllllllooooowwwwww....
Course, I just checked and there was 56 people on here, which is quite a few!
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Seems to be happening more often now.
I had trouble yesterday as well trying to read posts, just kept timing out so I gave up!!
Location-based problems maybe? I haven't had any troubles for quite a while now. I just got my cable Internet hooked up a couple weeks ago, and no problem since then (other than a few router problems at first).
Course, I'm a second-shifter, so I'm on at strange times... who knows?
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...I am a new member here, but I've been browsing without an account, and I saw a nice idea. I just forgot where it was. But it said to include a NEW tab INSIDE CCleaner, that gives you the OPTION to download additional languages and/or toolbar. So this will basically be the SLIM version with an additional button.
This way the CCleaner download itself WILL stay small, but will have a smal button inside itself, and when you click it, on the right there are direct links to Language Pack or Yahoo Toolbar download with information about what they are and stuff, perhaps also a small screenshot of Yahoo toolbar (SMALL, so ccleaner prog stays small also
).There should also be a third button where you can donate money through PayPal to MrG.
This is my 2 cents, good job with this nice and small proggy MrG, I like it VERY much, I uninstalled all other cleaners as soon as I tried this one (long time ago), and this is STILL the one and only cleaner I use.
Yeah, I suggested that with a screenshot a while ago, but I think the post was removed since it was made a little while ago. I like your suggestion for separate Language packs and a tiny screenshot as well. That would add some size, but if it was a jpg or gif, it would only be a few k (not 740k!), which wouldn't be that big of a deal. Also, this way MrG doesn't have to make multiple builds, so theoretically, it would make things easier for him too!
I also have no reservations about MrG adding a Paypal button. In fact, I don't know why he hasn't yet! To me, there is nothing shameful about that, and I see no reason why anyone would have any reason to complain if it was integrated. Good suggestions!
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Where have all the"real answers" to questions gone?
It seems lately that topics in this forum tend either to get hijacked or end up as trivial conversation
p.s.St.Joan of the internet(aka)krit86lr need not reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: wrong topic area but this is the only page i could get to load
And this malicious post is intended to encourage... what?
Last time I checked, I haven't seen you giving too many "real answers" to questions.
Here you are making fun of someone who you think posts too much, and by doing so, you yourself are making an irrelavent, obnoxious, and unnecessary post. If you've got a problem with K, and the fact that she helps people, PM HER FOR GOD'S SAKE!
There is no need for this thread.
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Here's the final change log for the next release.
The download will be posted shortly.
v1.28.277
- Updated Hotfix Uninstaller cleaning.
- Added secure certificate to the installer.
- Improved secure deletion performance.
- Fixed a few issues with 64bit OSs.
- Fixed checkbox bug on Issue Scanner.
- Added Galician Translation.
- Minor updates to Arabic and Hebrew.
- Minor interface and style update.
- Minor performance tweaks.
MrG
Whoa! Sweet! Those are pretty much all changes that I was hoping for! You r0xx0rs, MrG!
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Holy crap! Sounds like we have plenty of issues to address!
?kerio personal firewall ? GUI cannot connect to service? (only sporadically and only tvguide. Never had a problem before)
Before when? When it was still on the old computer, or when you first got the new computer?
System has performed 2 dumps of 535MB each within 1 day (about a week ago)
Ouch! However, that shouldn't actually be alarming, because you have your computer set to do a complete memory dump, instead of just a small or kernel memory dump. So theoretically, every time your computer crashes, Windows will write a half-gig of info as a .dmp file. If you have frequent crashes (which apparently you do) you may want to set your dump to small for the time being, so that your HD doesn't fill up with those. To do that, right-click My Computer, select Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Settings (under Startup and Recovery), and under Write debugging information, change Complete Memory Dump to Small Memory Dump. That will speed up your recovery from crashes, and not consume a bunch of HD.
...Computer won?t perform a check disk on C. Get a popup saying ?Windows was unable to complete the disk check.?
When I tried to run one with Fix-It, it ran, but said I needed to run a chkdsk with F (which windows wouldn't do). I tried again today and it said "Unable to access disk"...
...file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable; please run chkdsk (but it won't run one)
Error code 000000d1, parameter1 c0300000, parameter2 000000ff, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 19a91096
The server {72C2714F...} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
application event log errors: can't unload registry files
content scan could not be completed on C (getting this one at regular intervals)
Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper. Bought this computer in mid-December and kept an old HD which went out in mid-January, so I replaced it, so I now have a HD 3 mos old and one 2 mos old. Is it possible that there's a problem with configuration (on 2 separate computers) that's causing HDs or motherboards to be going bad quickly (if that's what's happening)? The actual day-to-day functioning - opening documents, being online, etc. - is, in general, ok.
And here is where things get nasty. I would highly doubt this is due to software problems, even though it would seem that way. It honestly sounds like a major hardware failure, either in you mobo or hard drive(s). What company are the HDs and mobo? Also, what company is the entire computer? And please don't say Dell...
I am assuming that your HDs are lettered C: and F:, correct? Which one contains your OS? Is either of the drives partitioned? And if so, are the potentially failing drives both actually just a single partitioned drive?
Also, is it worth putting back the registry items that I've deleted since Mar 6 and risk muddying the waters?
sonsie
I wouldn't if I were you. You can try, but don't expect anything good to happen. I doubt it will hurt anything, but any registry cleaner you use thereafter will probably just refind them and remove them again.
Make sure to let us know what you find out!
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Hello, and welcome.
Wow! That's my initial response to that one. Can you add some more information?
What OS are you using? And are you using the Hotfix Uninstaller (please stop if you are)? How many passes do you have CCleaner set to clean? Is the box checked for AutoUpdates (uncheck that if it is)?
He is using WinXP w/ SP1. (although not sure whether it is Home or Pro). His screenshot shows that at the top left-hand corner. And no Hotfixes are listed under the analysis, and it only shows a little over 10 MB of stuff being removed (Hotfixes would be a lot more), so that doesn't seem to be his problem, unless perhaps he ran that prior to running the analysis.
Okay, I just looked through your screenshot , and I'm glad that it isn't deleting them. I was going to tell you to uncheck them.
I am going to look a few things up.
Yeah, those are strange entries. I will await the product of your research, K!
lokoike = too lazy to look for himself
What exactly are your concerns about the cookies?
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them.
@ hlpme: you can deselect the 'Cookies' checkbox if you don't want your cookies removed. CCleaner is designed by default to get rid of them, so those showing up is not a problem, and doesn't indicate any trouble with your computer.
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...I though we had been over this discussion finally - it starts to get really, really, really, really boring...
Yeah, no kidding. Maybe the next CCleaner could come bundled with a Sasser Worm or something, so then we have something new and fresh to debate about!
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If you can get my iPod connection issues fixed, okay.
Seriously, thank you all for trying.
The one who will actually fix it will get a bag of cookies though.
Running out of ideas...
Is all of the audio/video on your iPod backed up somewhere, such as your computer's HD? If so, my only suggestion is to format your iPod and then try connecting it and seeing if iTunes picks up on it then.
I would imagine that it came with its own formatting software, but if not, don't try this with Windows' format utility until you know that it won't adversly affect the iPod. I don't know if it does or not, since I don't own an iPod, but I have heard that defragging an iPod with Windows' defrag utility is bad, so it would be best to make sure.
If you aren't sure whether or not you can safely format it, try PMing DJ, since apparently he owns one. I'm sure he would know.
Will Internet Explorer 7 protect your PC system?
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My feelings in a nutshell. Of course, I do also worry about MS's security as well as their business practices.